Gaming blog Kotaku’s
correspondent from Down Under reports that EB Games of Australia has issued
a recall on all of its Xbox 360 Premium consoles.

According to the report, EB Games managers were instructed late
June by head office to test every single one of its consoles, but are now
ordered to return entire inventories from stores. Managers were also told to remove
all 360 promotional material and dummy boxes from their stores.

New, quality assured Xbox 360 Premium consoles are
supposedly now entering channels, and will be in stores by Wednesday.
Currently, nearly every location listed by the EB Games Australia website shows
the Xbox 360 console as “Sold Out.”

Strangely enough, the supposed defect that afflicts the
recalled Xbox 360 consoles has nothing to do with the dreaded “Red Ring of
Death,” but rather is assumed to be related to the hard disk drive. Consoles
without a hard disk drive bundled – the Core systems – are not part of the
recall.

"Game reviewers fought each other to write the most glowing coverage possible for the powerhouse Sony, MS systems. Reviewers flipped coins to see who would review the Nintendo Wii. The losers got stuck with the job." -- Andy Marken